Happy Fall Y’all

My obsession with all things red and orange continues up here in the Great White North.

My favourite picture of Westminster Ponds in London, Ontario. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

The sweaters come out, pumpkin spice makes its return, hay bales and straw people adorn porches, and our worlds explode into colour.

It’s fall!

Inspired by a “Happy Fall Y’all” decorative board that I pass on my walks around my little Canadian neighbourhood, and in response to Jillian Amatt and JoAnn Ryan’s posts, here is my contribution to this glorious season from up here in Southern Ontario.

I’ll admit it — this assignment was tough! As I love fall, narrowing my pictures down was torture!

The Leaves

The journey from yellow to orange can take some time as I remind myself to stay present with the change, waiting in anticipation for the red explosion that I know is coming.

The beauty of the turn. Photos by Vanessa Brown.

The red explosion causes my heart to grow ten sizes. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

I look like a tourist in New York City as I crane my neck to stare up at the trees towering above me, marvelling at the beauty that presents itself each year.

I take a wander down to one of my favourite places, Westminster Ponds, on a regular basis to catch the slow progression of the spectrum of colours as fall moves through the forest of trees with a gentle touch.

The changing colours of Westminster Ponds, London, Ontario. Photos by Vanessa Brown.

Although my heart longs for the red explosion, it is the yellow leaves that glow golden in the morning sun.

The golden beauty of the early morning sun’s kiss. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

My morning walks are more magical as the sun plays with the leaves. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

The Decorations

Apart from the colours, part of my joy in the season can be found in the decorations that spring to life around my neighbourhood.

Hands down my favourite house every year. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

It doesn’t stake long for me to splash pumpkins and straw people all over my lovely little basement apartment… in fact, I have to restrain myself until an appropriate date.

This year I managed to make it until the day before fall officially began.

I waited as long as I could to adorn my home. Photos by Vanessa Brown.

As Thanksgiving comes and goes — it’s in early October here in Canada — pie reigns supreme.

Some of you may know how much I LOVE pie… and it goes perfectly with football!

Pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie, I don’t care… it’s pie! Photo by Vanessa Brown.

As I’m not a haunted-house-dead-bodies-skeleton type of person, Halloween fun for me is pumpkin patching at an adventure farm.

Just think of me as a five-year-old in a fifty-year-old body.

Kusterman’s Adventure Farm in Mount Brydges, Ontario. Photos by Vanessa Brown.

Fall brings a little chill, and with it the perfect excuse to light up the firepit.

My happy place — a red muskoka, my boots, and my firepit. Photos by Vanessa Brown and Feyza Çulhalık Kara.

And then there are Sunday drives to quaint little places nearby as fall blesses everything with colour.

Port Stanly, Ontario. Photo by Vanessa Brown.

For me, fall is more than a season, it’s a glorious combination of some of my favourite things.

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From the changing colours to Halloween decorations, from lashings of pumpkin pie to hours of football, from lazy afternoons around a firepit to long Sunday drives — all I can say is, Happy Fall Y’all!

Take a moment to read JoAnn & Jillian’s wonderful fall celebration stories.

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